Author Archives: Andrew Allison

Smaller, perfectly formed projects win at IPWEA Awards

13 May 2025: For a company known for the scale of its projects we were delighted our smaller projects were to the fore at the 2025 IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia) Awards in Auckland. Fulton Hogan won three categories – for Projects $0 – $2M and $2M – $5M and for Excellence in […]

Another step on the path to lower emissions

15 April 2025: New Zealand’s first two new Volvo FM Electric 6×4 trucks have been unveiled. A collaboration between Fulton Hogan, Volvo Trucks NZ, EECA and Transport Trailers Ltd, they will each carry up to 16,000kg of aggregate and asphalt in Auckland, based out of Stevenson’s Drury Quarry. Fulton Hogan NZ Chief Executive, Ben Hayward […]

Championing diversity in the quarrying sector

31 March 2025: Congratulations to our National Manager Occupational Health and Wellbeing, Jo Prigmore, for winning the diversity champion award at the 2025 Women in Extractives Awards in Christchurch. Jo won the Kristy Christensen Memorial Award, reflecting her work in helping make quarrying an attractive career option for females. Currently around 14 percent of the […]

The Marlborough Airport experience

24 March 2025: Project Manager Tim McCombe (left) and Site Manager Antony Mackay thought resurfacing Marlborough Airport back in 2010 was a once-in-a-lifetime job. Fifteen years later, the Fulton Hogan stalwarts have been proven wrong. They’re completing their second overlay of the airport, bringing almost 70 years’ combined experience to the runway, taxiway and apron […]

Kereru another milestone in HB recovery

6 March 2025: Fulton Hogan’s Civil, precast and regional teams are putting the final touches to one of the larger Cyclone Gabrielle emergency recovery projects. They have worked 24/7 across four shifts since September 2024 to complete the Kereru Gorge no.3 culvert structure in the foothills 40km west of Hastings. It is due to open […]

Takahē spread their wings further afield

3 March 2025: Our efforts to support the recovery of the takahē – a bird thought to be extinct until 1948 – have taken another step with the release of 18 birds in new territory. The takahē were released in the Rees Valley south of Queenstown, after being raised in the Burwood Takahē Centre near […]

Thomas shows what’s possible in our industry

13 February 2025: Is there a better example of the opportunities in our industry for young people than Thomas Cherrie?  Diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia in his early teens, the traditional classroom environment wasn’t for him, and frustration was spilling over into anxiety and unhappiness. Thomas then joined Fulton Hogan’s Infrastructure Skills Centre in 2022 […]

Anita Varga receives NZ Order of Merit

22 January 2025: We are particularly proud of our Bay of Plenty Regional Manager, Anita Varga, recipient of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s New Year’s Honours for advancing opportunities in the construction sector. Fulton Hogan’s first female regional manager, Anita is deeply committed to helping women achieve their potential by creating […]

70 percent of TREC projects completed at year end

21 December 2024: These before–and–after images at ‘Devil’s Elbow’ on SH2 in Hawke’s Bay give a sense of the scale of the reconstruction projects by the TREC team in 2024. Devil’s Elbow is a winding and hilly section of SH2, north of Napier. Eighteen months after its establishment, the Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) Alliance […]

A Christmas present for Hamilton

20 December 2024: Despite finding a series of unrecorded underground services, Waikato has completed the Borman Road connection almost three months ahead of its February 2025 deadline. Project managed by Marco van Dam, it is part of Hamilton City Council’s development of the northern suburb of Rototuna. The project involved upgrading and extending Borman Road […]